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Anything SmartFormer REM singer Michael Stipe has a new book of photography out.
After reading this article I might buy it....
Several interesting quotes in this interview.
“I think that digital technology brings us closer to nature.”
Mysterious, but that's how art is!
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A guide to the central tenets of Western thought, this is a work containing the principles of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences, profiling each in a series of short essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features. more A guide to the central tenets of Western thought, this is a work containing the principles of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences, profiling each in a series of short essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features. less Anything SmartA treasure of a book.
A sweeping survey of the great ideas of civilization in 50 little essays.
One book for a desert island? Could be this one!
With this wonderful book you will never run out of great ideas to think about and learn from.
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to... more In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history. less Anything SmartGood book!
"A Little History of the World"
Written for young readers this book is a great education for anyone who wants to be smarter.
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